Modern Photography

I saw a wonderful show of photography at MOMA. It consisted of work, primarily from the 1920's and 1930's, focusing on "modern" photographs.   That period was when photography really came of age as an art form.  I think it was a combination of technical advances and, more importantly, in these photographs, an urge to capture the modern world as the artists saw it.  My favorites among the works shown were those that tried to capture the dizzying changes in urban life and the visual complexity of new constructions in the city.  And the new perspectives afforded by views from high rises, etc.   As always, MOMA can't just put up the pictures and be done with it; they have got to be contextualized somehow.  In this case, they put a lot of effort into creating a web site which allows one to look at the photos and make connections.   This is a good thing.  

A few favorites: